It will be rare fun, surely." "It will be pretty rough fun," Walter replied; "and I should not be much surprised if some lives are lost; but this is always so in a tournament; and if knights and nobles are ready to be killed, we apprentices need not fear to hazard our lives.

But now as to tomorrow.

I, as the winner today, am to be the leader of the party, and you, as second, will of course be captain under me.

Now I want to explain to you exactly what I propose to do, and to arrange with you as to your share in the business." The young smith listened attentively to Walter's explanation, and, when he had done, exclaimed admiringly: "Why, Walter, you seem to be made for a general.

How did it all come to you, lad?
I should never have thought of such a scheme." "I talked it over with my master," Walter said, "and the idea is his as much as mine.